Coding For Online Success

Twitter Security

Today I wanted to chat about Twitter security. With all of the great Twitter apps out there, I was curious about security relating to Twitter account. I notice that alot of these apps require you to supply your Twitter username and password. Personally, I think this is a bit crazy. The thought of submitting my user credentials to a third party app. What I’m mostly surprised is the amount of people that do this. I am blown away that Twitter hijacking isn’t widespread and out of control. Seems like a malicious person could write a simple twitter application and start gathering credentials for spamming purposes or selling the information to others?

To me, it’s the same as supplying your mail user/pass to access this site. I don’t think many would. With that said, I do use twitter apps that require me to login via Twitter’s authentication interface and get redirected back to a application. To me there is a level of security there, since the authentication piece happens at Twitter.